Marion and Herb Sandler, a San Francisco couple with background in finance and involved in philanthropy, became increasingly concerned with the state of the journalism industry about seven years ago, and decided to fund the creation of a non-profit news organization focused on investigative reporting.

"We look at this as what you might call a public good – much like the symphony or the ballet," said ProPublica Editor-in-Chief Stephen Engelberg. "The free market will not produce an optimum amount of investigative reporting."

Watch below to find out how ProPublica and its team of investigative reporters (and developers) are evolving with the journalism industry while revolutionizing it at the same time.